The beige G3 was jsut the previous generation with G3 grafted to them.
No they weren't. They had a different northbridge, different memory type and slots, different IO chip, a whole new interface for extra features. It was a radical departure from any other motherboard they had out.
The beige G3 was jsut the previous generation with G3 grafted to them.
In a similar way the first PPC 6100-8100 were quadras with 601 PPC CPUs but still nubus cards and so on. The second generation of 601 & 604 had both modern PCI card and better cases.
So I hold the B&W G3 as the truly native G3 generation as I do the PCI boxes to be the truly native 601/604. The 7500 actually could hold 1 GB of RAM. I had one upgraded with a 200 MHz 604E running OS X
Apple used the 8500 desktop and 3400 Powerbook cases in the first G3s, but they were completely different inside. The 603/4 chipsets would not work.
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The beige G3 was jsut the previous generation with G3 grafted to them.
No they weren't. They had a different northbridge, different memory type and slots, different IO chip, a whole new interface for extra features. It was a radical departure from any other motherboard they had out.
The beige G3 was jsut the previous generation with G3 grafted to them.
In a similar way the first PPC 6100-8100 were quadras with 601 PPC CPUs but still nubus cards and so on. The second generation of 601 & 604 had both modern PCI card and better cases.
So I hold the B&W G3 as the truly native G3 generation as I do the PCI boxes to be the truly native 601/604. The 7500 actually could hold 1 GB of RAM. I had one upgraded with a 200 MHz 604E running OS X
Apple used the 8500 desktop and 3400 Powerbook cases in the first G3s, but they were completely different inside. The 603/4 chipsets would not work.